NSmolenskiFan on Nostr: Civilization is constituted by the productive tension between: 1. Platform/state/law ...
Civilization is constituted by the productive tension between:
1. Platform/state/law
and
2. Frontier/wilderness/possibility
The great danger we are facing now as a species is attempts to extend Platforms to every known surface of experience.
Whether it’s centrally-controlled money, or centrally-controlled AI, or centrally-controlled violence, what they have in common is the attempt to foreclose in advance the possibility of alternatives, of different ways of being, thinking, organizing, and doing. And it is the contestation between alternatives that generates the possibility of progress.
This is not to say that platforms are bad as such and we should get rid of them. Rather, it’s to say that platforms can only be of service to humanity if they are continuously parochialized by actual humans imagining and living otherwise in the SPACES (terrestrial, virtual, interpersonal, imaginative) that the platform does not comprehend.
1. Platform/state/law
and
2. Frontier/wilderness/possibility
The great danger we are facing now as a species is attempts to extend Platforms to every known surface of experience.
Whether it’s centrally-controlled money, or centrally-controlled AI, or centrally-controlled violence, what they have in common is the attempt to foreclose in advance the possibility of alternatives, of different ways of being, thinking, organizing, and doing. And it is the contestation between alternatives that generates the possibility of progress.
This is not to say that platforms are bad as such and we should get rid of them. Rather, it’s to say that platforms can only be of service to humanity if they are continuously parochialized by actual humans imagining and living otherwise in the SPACES (terrestrial, virtual, interpersonal, imaginative) that the platform does not comprehend.